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Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk
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Max 2 hours ago
This turned into a long one... A comparative analysis of financial privacy across ten systems: Bitcoin's transparent baseline, WabiSabi CoinJoin, Lightning Network, Spark, Ark, shielded client-side validation, Monero RingCT, Monero's upcoming FCMP++, Zcash's Sapling and Orchard pools, and DarkFi's anonymous-everything architecture. Each system stakes its design on a different anonymity set, trust model, and architectural layer. The result is a spectrum from adequate plausible deniability to full untraceability, and your threat model determines which point on that spectrum you need. View article →
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Max 3 hours ago
Want to install an app but it's not on @Zapstore? Just paste the GitHub repo link in the zapstore search bar, hit enter, and wait a couple minutes, it will be automagically indexed in the background!
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Max 2 days ago
Multi-device support in an encrypted messenger is an authorization problem. It is not a sync problem, not a UX problem, not a storage problem. The question that must be answered before anything else can proceed is simple: how does a second device prove it belongs to the same person, in a way that every group member can independently verify, without any central authority vouching for the claim? Marmot PR #44 introduces MIP-06 to answer exactly this question for White Noise. View article →
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Max 6 days ago
Next attempt to get White Noise to finally work well for everyone. Now it finally works for my npub, so shoot me a message if you want to try! View article →
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Max 1 week ago
The industrial war machine was built on concentration, first of capital and command, then of targets. Cheap drones are tearing through that architecture because a low-cost weapon can now erase an asset that required years of budgets, contracts, and political theater to build. Rothbard and Hoppe did not write about quadcopters, but they described the political and economic logic that made the old model brittle, and the battlefield is proving them right. View article →